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The Pit-Prop Syndicate

First published: 1922
Pages: 239

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The Sawmill on the Lesque
22:58
An Interesting Suggestion
21:47
The Start of the Cruise
25:22
A Commercial Proposition
26:31
The Visit of the "Girondin"
29:51
A Change of Venue
22:28
The Ferriby Depot
20:11
The Unloading of the "Girondin"
22:32
The Second Cargo
38:12
Merriman Becomes Desperate
26:06
An Unexpected Ally
37:39
Murder!
20:26
A Promising Clue
19:17
A Mystifying Discovery
28:42
Inspector Willis Listens In
22:24
The Secret of the Syndicate
24:13
"Archer Plants Stuff"
32:19
The Bordeaux Lorries
24:34
Willis Spreads His Net
34:23
The Double Cross
27:17

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Freeman Wills Crofts blends mystery with adventure in this 1922 novel, which begins with a small oddity that refuses to sit still in the mind. On a business trip near Bordeaux, wine merchant Seymour Merriman watches a lorry belonging to a pit-prop firm quietly swap its number plates, and the more he and his friend Hilliard poke at the company that ships mining timber from France to England, the less innocent it looks. What starts as amateur snooping grows into a full criminal investigation, and Scotland Yard is eventually drawn in to expose what the syndicate is really moving. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was an Irish-born railway engineer who began writing detective fiction while recovering from a long illness. A founding member of the Detection Club, he became a mainstay of the Golden Age and is best remembered for the methodical Inspector French.